Telegohelle: Preserving 20 TB of Audiovisual Heritage with Videas

Telegohelle: The Audiovisual Voice of the Lens-Lievin Territory

Telegohelle is the local television channel of the Lens-Lievin metropolitan area, in the Hauts-de-France region. Since its creation, it has established itself as a go-to media outlet for documenting and showcasing the life, history, and news of the territory: field reports, interviews with local figures, heritage documentaries, and coverage of civic, cultural, and sporting events.

Over the years, this dense and continuous editorial production has generated a considerable volume of multimedia content – more than 20 TB of raw footage, edited videos, and photographs. This audiovisual collection constitutes a living memory of the territory, tracing the evolution of the metropolitan area, its landmark moments, and its key figures.

Faced with the need to centralize, secure, and enhance this digital heritage, the Lens-Lievin metropolitan area chose Videas as its platform for managing and archiving all of its audiovisual productions.

The Challenge: Preserving and Leveraging a 20 TB Audiovisual Heritage

Telegohelle’s challenge went beyond simply distributing videos. It was about building a lasting digital memory for a local authority, with multiple stakes.

A Dispersed and Vulnerable Audiovisual Collection

After years of intensive production, Telegohelle’s content was spread across multiple storage media and locations: hard drives, local servers, physical archives. This dispersion made content searches laborious, complicated the reuse of archives for new productions, and exposed the collection to risks of irreversible loss – hardware failure, media obsolescence, or simply being forgotten.

For a local authority, losing these archives would mean erasing part of the territory’s collective memory. Reports on historic local events, testimonials from now-deceased figures, coverage of inaugurations and commemorations – all irreplaceable documents that deserve long-term preservation.

Varied and Sensitive Usage Needs

Telegohelle’s audiovisual collection is not simply inert storage. It must be actively leveraged in very different contexts:

• Historical retrospectives: reusing archives for documentaries or retrospectives on the territory’s history.
• Official events: using documents for anniversaries, commemorations, or local authority ceremonies.
• Press relations: sharing selected excerpts or edits with local and regional media to illustrate news stories.
• Public distribution: making selected content available on the Telegohelle website for citizens.
• Internal productions: quick access to raw footage and archives to feed new reports or edits.

Each use requires a different level of control: some archives can be shared publicly, while others must remain strictly internal (unedited raw footage, content pending approval, images subject to specific rights).

Sovereignty Requirements for a Public Authority

As a service of a local authority, Telegohelle is subject to strict regulatory obligations:

• GDPR: protecting the personal data of citizens appearing in reports.
• Digital sovereignty: a French local authority’s content cannot be hosted on foreign servers controlled by non-European companies.
• Longevity: the archiving solution must guarantee content availability over the long term, beyond technological cycles.

The Videas Solution: Sovereign Video and Photo Libraries

To address all of these challenges, Videas deployed a comprehensive audiovisual heritage management solution built on four pillars.

1. Centralizing 20 TB on a Single Platform

Telegohelle’s entire audiovisual collection was migrated and centralized on the Videas platform: raw footage, edited videos, historical archives, and event photographs.

This centralization offers several immediate advantages:

• Fast search: teams find any content in seconds through the search engine and classification by categories, dates, and themes.
• End of dispersion: no more content forgotten on external hard drives or aging servers. Everything is accessible from a single interface.
• Structured collections: content is organized by type (reports, documentaries, events, archives), by year, and by theme, facilitating navigation and reuse.

2. Integrated Video and Photo Libraries

A distinctive feature of the Telegohelle deployment: Videas manages both the videos and photographs of the local authority. This dual functionality enables:

• Centralizing all media produced by Telegohelle on a single platform, avoiding tool proliferation.
• Linking videos and photos from the same event in cohesive collections.
• Unified rights management: the same sharing and restriction rules apply to both videos and photos.

Telegohelle’s teams thus have a complete media library, accessible internally and administrable without specialized technical skills.

3. Sovereign Hosting and GDPR Compliance

All content is hosted on servers located in France, guaranteeing:

• Digital sovereignty: the local authority’s audiovisual archives remain under French jurisdiction, with no data transfers to foreign companies or servers.
• GDPR compliance: native personal data protection, no cookies or trackers during content viewing.
• Longevity: redundant and scalable cloud infrastructure designed for long-term archiving. Content is protected against failures, losses, and physical media obsolescence.
• Security: data encryption, automatic backups, and controlled access to prevent any risk of hacking or leaks.

4. Selective Distribution and Fine-Grained Rights Management

Videas enables Telegohelle to precisely control what is shared, with whom, and on which channels:

Secure Internal Access: Telegohelle teams and the metropolitan area staff access the entire collection (including unpublished raw footage and archives) via protected accounts with permissions tailored to each profile.

Controlled Public Distribution: Content intended for the general public – edited reports, retrospectives, event coverage – is published on the Telegohelle website via the Videas player, without exposing the rest of the collection.

Custom Press Sharing: For press relations, teams can generate temporary or restricted sharing links to specific excerpts or edits, without granting access to the entire library. This mechanism is particularly useful during media events when journalists need footage quickly.

Domain Restriction: Published videos can only be played on sites authorized by the local authority, preventing any unwanted reuse on third-party platforms.

Results: A Protected and Living Collective Memory

The Videas deployment transformed how Telegohelle and the Lens-Lievin metropolitan area manage their audiovisual heritage.

Heritage Preservation: - 20 TB+ of content centralized, structured, and protected on sovereign infrastructure. - No more risk of loss due to hardware failures or physical media obsolescence. - An audiovisual collection that continuously grows with new productions, without capacity constraints.

Operational Efficiency: - Teams instantly find the archives they need through structured classification and metadata search. - Creating new productions is accelerated: existing raw footage and archives are reusable in a few clicks. - Unified video + photo management eliminates the need to juggle between multiple tools.

Distribution Control: - Each piece of content is shared intentionally and controllably – nothing leaks accidentally. - Press relations are facilitated by targeted sharing of excerpts, without exposing the entire collection. - The Videas cookie-free player ensures public distribution that respects citizens’ privacy.

Territory Enhancement: - The local authority’s audiovisual heritage is accessible, usable, and transmissible to future generations. - Retrospectives, documentaries, and archives become living resources serving social bonds and collective memory.

Why Videas for Local Authorities?

The Telegohelle case illustrates Videas’ ability to meet the specific needs of local authorities for audiovisual heritage management:

• French sovereign hosting: data stored in France, under French jurisdiction, native GDPR compliance.
• Integrated video and photo libraries: all media on a single platform, with unified rights management.
• Long-term archiving: durable, redundant, and scalable cloud infrastructure designed to preserve content for decades.
• Selective distribution: granular control over what is public, internal, or shared with the press.
• Cookie-free player: public distribution that respects citizen privacy, with no trackers or data collection.

Videas supports the Lens-Lievin metropolitan area in preserving and enhancing its audiovisual heritage, providing a sovereign platform that transforms years of local productions into a living digital memory – serving the territory and its residents.